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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Seneca the Younger

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

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